Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...armored car popped open, spilling about $1 million onto a highway; most of the cash was never returned. Funded by private donations, the "Take an Honest Look" campaign will feature forums, TV spots and award plaques to "role models" like the two hotel maids who found a shoe box containing $65,000 in a room and turned it in. Says Magruder: "It could have been different in Watergate if there had been continuing emphasis on good values...
...world, once it gets a good look at Bikkembergs' footwear, may go easy around his extremities. One of his more conservative shoe collections was a madcap combination of combat boots and vintage Olympic running shoes, a sort of rough-trade revision of Chariots of Fire. Laces looped into mad interstices, toes were rounded off into inverted parentheses and functional elements of the shoe -- like the tongue -- threatened to become design elements all on their...
This is not quite as frivolous, or as impractical, as it may sound. At least one Dirker design (a soft leather, multicolored running shoe for street wear) has been widely copied. Such intimations that Bikkembergs may be on a popular wavelength encourage his sweeping fantasies of success but do not dilute his often self-mocking sense of humor. One recent inspiration was to reverse the usual order of dressing and put underwear on over the trousers. The look may not catch on at Paine Webber, but Bikkembergs is hardly the first young upstart to show off his talent by flouting...
...high school that Jordan began a lifelong obsession with basketball shoes. "There is something about new basketball sneakers that makes you feel better and play better," he says. Nike, Inc., was smart enough to exploit that passion. The firm had done reasonably well with its running shoes, but his namesake black-and-red Air Jordan sneakers put Nike on the basketball-shoe map in 1985 and sent its revenues into orbit, helping to generate more than $70 million in sales the first year. During the season, Jordan satisfies the dreams of dozens of admiring fans by giving away a pair...
Hackman thinks of himself as a craftsman in an honored, perhaps vanishing tradition. "All of us," he says, "from ditchdiggers to bus drivers to shoe salesmen, have a need to create something. I'm blessed that I found a profession that lets me do so. Once in a while, a piece of artistry flows by me or through me, but it's a mistake to think of myself as 'artistic.' It looks relaxed, easy, but I work very hard...